The social services sector in Victoria is a multi billion dollar sector providing a range of services with the common focus of reducing poverty and disadvantage experienced by Victorians. The sector employs thousands of Victorians, making a substantial contribution to the state economy. In addition to this, there are a large number of charities and not-for-profit organisations that operate within the social services sector in Victoria, often deriving funding from very different sources than that of their privately-run counterparts.
As the social services sector in Victoria is so large and complex, this report dives into the data to better understand its composition and characteristics. The below report and data visualisations make use of data provided by the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) to examine the impact of charities and not-for-profit organisations in the social services sector in Victoria. This report also looks at changes in the nature of the charities and not-for-profits in the social services sector between 2016 and 2017.
Charities operating in the social services sector comprise more than one out of every five charities operating in Victoria. In 2016 this was 1,062 charities, which decreased slighty in 2017 to 1,022 (22.8% and 22.0% of total charities, respectively).
In 2016, the largest number of charities were working in the Social Services sector with Other Education recording the second-most number of charities at 1,062. These figures changed in 2017, with Other Education recording the greatest number of charities at 1,136 while Social Services decreased slightly at 1,022 charities.
Social services charities had the largest number of all-type employees as well as full-time and casual type employees in 2016 but in 2017, the largest number of staffs were in aged care charities. The number of staffs in social services charities accounted for 23.5% of total number of charity staffs in 2016 and was decreased to 23.4% in 2017. On the contrary, total numbers of staffs in aged care activities organizations were increased from 20.2% to 24.6%. Other health service delivery sector had the second largest number of employees and aged care activities had the third largest number of employees, which were 32,574 and 30,418 respectively in 2016. Things changed in 2017 while social services sectors and other education sectors were in the second and third place regarding to numbers of staffs. Income support and maintenance and civic and advocacy activities are seen having the smallest proportions of staffs.
Civic and advocacy activites had the most volunteers in 2016 but had a huge drop from 77403 to 620 in 2017. In 2017, other education sectors got the highest numbers of volunteers. Social services were in the second place in both years and had a slightly decreasing from 75,605 to 70,289 people.
The source of income for charities are mainly government grants which accounted for 49.4% in 2016 and 73.5% in 2017. Other revenue was decreased from 39% to 11.8% whereas proportions of donation and bequests were increased from 9% to 11.9%. Other income was fluctuated between 2.6% to 2.8%.
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Social Services and all other Sectors